Film Screening “It’s a Wonderful Life”
Fri 30 Dec 2016, 7.30 pm
TPD
From TPD:
In the final week of Festive Season movie month, you are invited to the film screening IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE directed by the American director Frank Capra.
Film notes
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE • US • 1946
PG | 140’ | Drama•Family•Fantasy
Directed by Frank Capra
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet ‘The Greatest Gift’ by Philip Van Doren. The film is now among the most popular in American cinema, and, because of numerous television showings in the 1980s, has become traditional viewing during the Christmas season.
The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others, and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and how different life in his community of Bedford Falls would be had he never been born.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE is one of the most acclaimed films ever made, praised particularly for its writing. It was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture and has been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made, placing number 11 on its initial 1998 greatest movie list, and number one on AFI’s list of the most inspirational American films of all time. Capra revealed that the film was his personal favorite among those he directed, adding that he screened it for his family every Christmas season. [Wikipedia]
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles
Entry: 20,000 VND (donation for TPD’s fund for movie talents)
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